TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2026

LIFE NOTES:

It’s one of those barometric pressure mornings. There is pressure behind my eyes and my joints hurt everywhere. Great. It has just started sprinkling and we still can’t get Sam (the youngest of the rescue cats) inside. I never saw a cat so unbothered by rain.

We’ve got our fruit/yogurt smoothies for breakfast. Wonderful, strawberries, blueberries, frozen bananas, vanilla and vanilla Greek yogurt from Sams. Delicious.

Trump is suggesting at a rally last night that we allow the Iranians to bomb San Diego and another California city and telling his audience that gas prices aren’t that bad. They are laughing. None of them look to have an IQ over 70 and none of them appear to be even listening to him. They are taking selfies or trying to get a look at themselves on the television.

News Notes:

LIFE AND NEWS NOTES

· (10/6/26) “Ebola Patient boarde commercial flight, died shortly after arrival.” Wall Street Journal. A man who contracted ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo transited three countries and boarded a commercial flight to Nairobi where he died. Ebola’s Bundibugyo strain has killed more than 4,000 people in eastern Congo in the past five months. This epidemic has been advancing faster than any other Ebola outbreak on record.

· (10/6/26) “Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter…” The Guardian.

· (10/5/26) “Pennsylvania has logged 1,000 measles cases, among the biggest outbreaks in decades.” The Philadelphia Inquirer.

· (10/5/26) “Spain’s prime minister calls snap election aiming to seize momentum over housing crisis.” AP News.